As NASA’s giant moon rocket rolls to the launch pad for the first time, some pieces of space shuttle history are riding along with it. The SLS rocket’s engines and boosters powered each of the shuttles through the years, all the way back to Columbia.
NASA’s Space Launch System rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard is seen atop a mobile launcher as it rolls out of High Bay 3 of the Vehicle Assembly Building. When NASA’s giant new moon rocket soars into space later this year, the roar of its rockets will be the last gasp for some pieces of space shuttle program history. The Artemis I mission’s main engines and boosters all have ties to each of the shuttles and even one of the original Mercury 7 astronauts.
It was Kennedy Space Center’s first rocket rollout since 2011, when space shuttle Atlantis headed to the launch pad for the That will make it the most powerful rocket ever to successfully fly. The Soviets’ secret moon rocket, the N1, was equipped with 30 first-stage rocket engines capable of over 10-million pounds of thrust, but all four test launches failed; the longest flight did not last two minutes.SLS is based on a lot of space shuttle elements, and at first glance, it’s easy to spot some of the similarities: the bright orange fuel tank, the pencil-shaped solid rocket boosters.
Engine E2056: Four flights, including STS-109, a Hubble Telescope servicing trip and Columbia’s last successful missionEngine E2060: Three flights, most notably STS-135 Atlantis, the final shuttle mission
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